Ziad Abdelnour Quotes
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful idiots are always asking, "What's in it for me"?
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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If you solve both the consumer problems and the corporate problems, you can win at this game. If you reinvent what a corporation is currently selling, it can often make the leap.
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It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
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Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
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People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.
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Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
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I've got a great relationship with my dad, but I can imagine how annoying it would be if I had to move back into his house.
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There's nothing more human than two people making love.
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I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.
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I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.
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There's a lot of people that fought for their country and that's not something to be taken lightly. They gave their life, everything they had, they gave their lives, to give us what we have. That's why I'm so passionate about my beliefs - because someone died.
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For me, one of the things art has to examine is how to live your life, and unless it's doing that, it doesn't work for me.
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When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.
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Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books.
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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful idiots are always asking, "What's in it for me"?
